Sales-slip book



No. 613,047. F! SHEPHERD- Patented Oct. 25, |898.

SALES SLIP BUUK.

(Application filed Sept. 3, 1897.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK J. SHEPHERD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SALES-SLIP BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,047, dated October 25, 1898.

Application flled September 3, 1897. Serial No. 650,509. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. SHEPHERD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sales-Slip Books, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to sales-slip books by which au original and duplicate copy of items is made at the same time by the use of a carbon impression-sheet; and the objects of my improvement are to provide more convenient means whereby the original and duplicate copies may be temporarily retained in the book Without interfering with its further use or one or both torn out at once, as the case may require; also to devise a book possessing the foregoing qualities in which, in addition thereto, the original and duplicate sheets are readily distinguished after being separated.

By my invention I seek the accomplishment of the aforesaid and other objects, the invention comprisingthe combination shown in the drawings and which is fully described herein and contained in theclaim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side edge View of my sales-slip book; Fig. 2, a top view of the same, and Fig. 3 a side edge View of the book in a modified form.

Silnilar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The sides of the cover 1 are iieXibly connected at the center in the usual manner of book-covers. At or near said central connection is iexibly secured to the cover a slip-pad back 2, Fig. 1. Each sale-slip is composed of two parts-the original 4 and duplicate 3- a number of which are formed into apack or pad and preferably are secured together ata stub end 5, located at the end which is made up of the superimposed duplicates. Perforations 6 will enable the originals to be separated from the duplicates, both of which comprise one continuous sheet, and perforations 7 will enable the whole slip to be 4detached from the book. The pad or pack of slips may be removably secured to the pad-back in any suitable manner; but I prefer a spring-bail 8, pivotally secured to the pad-back by means of pins 9 and provided with spring-arms 10, which fit over lugs 1l at the side edges of the slip-pad back. The carbon-sheet 12 is secured by any suitable means to that leaf 1 of the cover which lies beneath and next to the slippad back, or, in other words, to that end of the cover adjacent to the secured end of the slip-pad. The form of carbondlolder 13 sho wn is secured to the end of said cover, as stated, and presents a transverse hooked groove 14., into which one end of the carbon-sheet is slipped and from which it may be readily removed. It will be vobserved that thebail and the carbon-holder shown in the drawings are the same in form as those shown in Letters Patent No. 526,002, dated September 11, 1894i, as to which patent I am joint inventor.

I prefer to have the original and duplicate portions 4 5 of each slip of dierent colors, so as to be more readily distinguished-for instance, the originals all white and the duplicates buff. I am aware that it is not new, broadly speaking, to have original and duplicate slips of distinguishing colors; but when employed heretofore they have been separate and distinct sheets, united, if at all, only by binding. Thisleads to important differences, for in the use of sale-slips the course of business often requires that both original and duplicate shall be sent together toacashiers desk--for instance, before each proceeds on its separate mission. In the forms heretofore used when the originals and duplicates of distinguishing colors were removed from the book they were also separate from each other, and a number of the slips so reaching the cashier often become intermingled, leading to confusion, which my slip Wholly avoids, at the same time obtaining the advantage of having the original and duplicates of dierent colors.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 3 the slip-pad back 2 is omitted and the bail 8 mounted upon one of the sides 1 of the back or cover, the pad of slips being in this case secured thereby to the end of said side.

The operation of the slip may be further described as follows: The book being in an open position the carbon-sheet 12 is brought over the duplicate slip 3, and the original 4. of the same sheet is folded over the carbon, as shown in Fig. 2. The order is then written on the original and appears upon the duplicate. If the salesman desires to take further orders before removing the slip, it is folded IOO . back between the slip-pad back 2 and the Cover l, as shown in Fig. 1, Where it is proteeted and out of he Way While another order is being taken. When it is desired to remove the slip, it may be torn out along the perforations 7, and when the salesman Wishes to do this as soon as Jche order is taken either the form of book shown in Fig. l or the modified form shown in Fig. 3 may be used.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In zi sales-slip book, Jche combination of the cover, 'che slip-pad beek, the pad of sales-slips removably mounted on the slip-pad back by means of a spring-bail, and a carbon-sheet 15 secured to the end of the cover upon which lche slip-pad back lies, substantially as shown and described.

FRANK J. SHEPHERD.

Witnesses:

CHAs. S. CAIRNs, ROBERT R. REYNOLDS. 

